https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948925#M289904 Do it occur to you to try a "man identd" before posting your question? You might then have asked a follow up question that was more pointed. In any event, unless you are running Serviceguard, there is a good chance that you can safely comment out the identd entry and issue an inetd -c command. Identd isn't required on most systems. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:42:49 GMT A. Clay Stephenson 2007-02-21T12:42:49Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948924#M289903 Hi guys, i was checking /etc/inetd.conf file. I was wondering what does identd do? <BR />Thanks Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:35:59 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948924#M289903 khilari 2007-02-21T12:35:59Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948925#M289904 Do it occur to you to try a "man identd" before posting your question? You might then have asked a follow up question that was more pointed. In any event, unless you are running Serviceguard, there is a good chance that you can safely comment out the identd entry and issue an inetd -c command. Identd isn't required on most systems. Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:42:49 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948925#M289904 A. Clay Stephenson 2007-02-21T12:42:49Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948926#M289905 Here is info about ident - <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ident</A><BR /><BR /><BR />regards,<BR />ivan Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:44:16 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/identd/m-p/3948926#M289905 Ivan Krastev 2007-02-21T12:44:16Z